Update: Arrest made in Indian Head Acres neighborhood shooting

Update: 9:45 a.m.

One man is dead and a woman injured as a result of a shooting in the Indian Head Acres neighborhood Thursday night.

Joshua D. Franklin, 20, of Tallahassee, will face charges of premeditated murder and attempted homicide after a shooting near his residence on Wekewa Nene Thursday, according to court documents.

At 5:15 p.m., Franklin's girlfriend called her friend to tell her that she had been struck by Franklin. The friend and her boyfriend, Robert J. Simmons-Goodwin, drove to Franklin's residence on Wekewa Nene to pick her up.

Upon arrival, the two exited the car. Once they exited, Franklin started firing multiple times at them with a handgun, according to the report.

Franklin's girlfriend and her friend got back in the car to drive away. As they turned around, they saw that Franklin had run over Simmons-Goodwin with his Lincoln Town Car as Simmons-Goodwin was lying in the road. Franklin then drove away, according to the court document.

The woman suffered two gunshot wounds. Simmons-Goodwin was transported to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare where he was later pronounced dead from a gunshot wound.

Franklin will face charges of premeditated murder, attempted homicide, possession of a weapon by a convicted felon and carrying a concealed firearm.

Update: 8:49 a.m.

An arrest has been made in the Thursday night shooting in the Indian Head Acres neighborhood that sent two people to the hospital, according to David Northway, spokesman for the Tallahassee Police Department.

Original Update

Two people were taken to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare for gunshot wounds Thursday night after a shooting in the Indian Head Acres neighborhood, said officer David Northway, Tallahassee Police Department spokesman.

Around 5:55 p.m., TPD officers responded to a call on the 1400 block of Wekewa Nene, where they found that two people had been shot, Northway said.

No more information about the two people who were shot or their condition was available.

"We have no reason to believe this was a random shooting," said Northway.

On the scene during the investigation was the Forensic Unit and the Criminal Investigations Division. Northway could not give a description of the suspects. The investigation is ongoing.

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Update: Arrest made in Indian Head Acres neighborhood shooting

An arrest has been made in the shooting that occurred last night in the Indian Head Acres neighborhood last night that left two people shot